Draft:Sophie Stippel

Sophie Margarete Stippel, née Greiner (* May 28, 1892 in Mannheim; † August 28, 1985 in Weinheim) was a German Bible scholar (now known as Jehovah's Witnesses) and resister against National Socialism. She was persecuted by the National Socialists because of her faith and was imprisoned for the first time on May 14, 1936 (Jehovah's Witnesses during the National Socialist era). As a result, she was deported via Lichtenburg concentration camp and Ravensbrück concentration camp to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942. There she met the camp commandant Rudolf Höß, who employed her as a cook for his family. Stippel and Höß knew each other from their childhood in Mannheim. Because of this position, Stippel was able to help many prisoners in Auschwitz and held on to her faith, even though she could have left the concentration camp if she had renounced it.